Taylor was born in Southport, Queensland and lived in Fiji and Kenya as a child. She studied history at the Australian National University, and then worked as a freelance film and television writer, with her work including the 1988 two-part television film Alterations for the ABC. Her first books were the Rat Tales and Bandaged Bear series of children's books.
Diagnosed with melanoma in 2005, Taylor turned to writing fiction and her 2011 début novel, Me and Mr Booker, won the Commonwealth Book Prize for the Pacific Region in 2012. Her next book, My Beautiful Enemy (2013), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.[2]
As her health worsened, Taylor wrote her last book Dying: A Memoir, which was published just before her death from melanoma-related brain cancer on 5 July 2016.[3] It was shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize[4] and included in Barack Obama's list of best books in 2017.[5]
Bibliography
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Rat Tales, illustrated by Stephen Michael King, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 1999, Vol. 1, Rat's Lucky Day and Rat Goes Fishing, ISBN1863887393; Vol. 2, Rat and the Rude Cap and Rat and the Big StinkISBN1863889876
Bandaged Bear and the Broken Bones, co-authored with Peter Townsend, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 2001, ISBN1865043648
Bandaged Bear Saves His Breath, co-authored with Peter Townsend, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 2001, ISBN1865043656
Bandaged Bear and the Birthday Party, co-authored with Peter Townsend, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 2002, ISBN1865043664
Me and Mr Booker, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, ISBN1921758112
German: Mr. Booker und ich, List/Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, 2019, ISBN9783471351642
"Trouble at Dolphin Cove". Griffith Review. 27: 53–59. Autumn 2010.
My Beautiful Enemy, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2013, ISBN9781922079893
Dying: A Memoir, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016, ISBN9781925355772
References
^"Cory Taylor, Miles Franklin-nominated novelist whose last work was Dying: A Memoir". 8 July 2016.
^Wyndham, Susan (6 July 2016). "Cory Taylor, author of Dying: A Memoir, has died". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^"Cory Taylor on dying for beginners". ABC Radio. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^"2017 Stella Prize Shortlist". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
^"Here's Barack Obama's Favorite Books and Music of 2017". Time. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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